Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

The nationally-ranked Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration is a degree-completion major comprised of 51 credit hours(128 credits) designed for the working professional employed in a business or public organization. The curriculum is designed to enable graduates to deal effectively with an increasingly complex business environment.

The program stresses skill development in the areas of management, decision-making, business communication, managerial accounting and finance, managerial economics and marketing. The emphasis in this program is on developing the quantitative skills necessary to be successful in the professional worlds.

The Professional Programs courses, meet from 6 to 10 p.m. one evening per week as well as online. Students entering a bachelor's degree program are required to have earned 50 semester hours of college credits prior to entering the program. Those who have less than the required 50 credit hours may complete those hours through the Professional Programs' Associate Degree Program.

Through the capstone course, students will demonstrate their mastery of their learning by addressing a real business organizational issue. The outcome will include a thesis-type written report and oral presentation demonstrating individual competence. The business capstone project has the following purposes:

To develop research skills needed to locate information on which to base sound decisions

To develop professional writing skills

To develop oral presentation skills

To develop a new area of expertise of value to the student on the job or in the community